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Emily Dickinson

Parting

MY LIFE closed twice before its close;
    It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
    A third event to me

So huge, so hopeless to conceive,
    As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
    And all we need of hell.

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Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson
1830-1886

 
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